Are There Dark Spirits in Shamanism? A shamanic teacher's answers.

Описание: Are there dark spirits in shamanism? This is a question that has come up in different forms for me multiple times in recent interviews. Sometimes it is phrased like, “do you ever run into a demon or evil entity during a shamanic healing session.”

In this video, I will talk about the spiritual beings I regularly encounter during shamanic journeys. I will also discuss the nature of good and evil and how these are mostly very loose cultural concepts. I will talk about demons, what they really are and how their concept has changed over time.

By definition, a shaman is a spiritual functionary or priestess who uses soul travel and communication with spirits to heal and gather information. A shaman is unique in that not only does he or she travel to non-ordinary worlds, but he also uses his spiritual relationships to create changes that will manifest in the physical world to benefit individuals or communities. Thus, a shaman is a special type of healer who uses another state of consciousness to enter the invisible world, which includes all the invisible aspects of our world, including spiritual, emotional, psychological, mythological, archetypal, and other worlds.

Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves practitioners who are believed to interact with the spiritual world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance states. Shamans use rituals to induce altered states of consciousness (ASC) and perform a shamanic journey, in which part of the soul leaves the body and travels to the spiritual worlds. Shamanism is found in many cultures all over the world

Another definition attempts to distinguish shamans from other magical-religious professionals who are believed to be in contact with spirits, such as "remedies", "sorcerers", "spiritual healers" or "prophets.” Modern research shows that shamans use specific techniques and states of mind not used by others.

In some Indigenous cultures, shamans often perform exorcisms to heal people from various ailments. In this form of shamanic healing, exorcism is seen as necessary when a negative entity takes possession of a person's soul. In the form of shamanism I practice, we look at soul-stealing as a potential spiritual cause of illness, but this sometimes is done by other humans.

I will talk about shamanic soul retrieval experiences as well as deposession (a form of gentle exorcism).

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